Kentucky Supreme Court· 4/21/2005

Metcalf v. Commonwealth

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158 S.W.3d 740
2005 WL 119576

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noting that evidence is “inextricably intertwined” when it would be necessary to suppress evidence relating to the charged offense in order to exclude evidence of the other crime, wrong, or act
noting that evidence is “inextricably intertwined” when it would be necessary to suppress evidence relating to the charged offense in order to exclude evidence of the other crime, wrong, or act
reversing, in part due to the erroneous admission of evidence that defendant -3- exposed himself and showed pornography to a different victim
finding a missing-evidence instruction was not warranted where the “recording device malfunctioned,” since the evidence was neither lost nor destroyed, instead it “never existed”
detectives could have testified in defendant’s trial on charges of sodomy and sexual abuse of a different victim, without mentioning that defendant had videotaped his stepdaughter undressing
Evidence was not inextricably intertwined where exclusion of testimony about Appellant’s abuse of another child “would not have required suppression of any facts and circumstances relevant to the charged sodomy and sexual abuse of [a different minor].”

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Judges: Cooper, Lambert, Graves, Johnstone, Keller, Wintersheimer, Scott

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